Just Pee Your Pants

My last lacrosse game was against Olympus and they were kind of a weird team. Some of the girls were super nice and friendly and others were just flat out rude. Some girls would be like oh I love your hair and the other would be like make sure to push that girl because she's going to goal. We were really nice to them and saying good job and things like that but some of the girls would either smile back or the other would give a deathly glare. They were so bipolar because every girl was completely different from her teammate. I was really weirded out.

Before halftime came around I didn't realize the weird things they were doing but then at halftime a whole bunch of my teammates pointed out their weirdness.  All the girls that were playing defense told me that one of the girls told her teammate she really had to pee and the other teammate told her to just pee. I was so weirded out and didn't know who the girl was so I didn't want to run into her if she had peed. I really didn't want pee all over me and then my teammate went on with the story and said the one girl that had to pee said, "I peed last time and don't want to pee again." After I heard that I took a huge sigh of relief but then the story went on: Khaki, my teammate, told me that later she over heard the girls talking again and said, "I just peed." After hearing that I was fully aware that I needed to figure out who this girl is and stay away from her because I wasn't going to risk getting some pee on me. I was so relieved that she was playing attack and I wouldn't be able to make contact with her or else I was going to have to take about five hundred showers before I could do anything. I felt so bad for all the defenders that had to play defense on her because they had a very high risk of getting pee on their body. It's so disgusting that someone would pee on the field just because it was raining and the rain would "wash" it away. I have a news flash for this girl, the pee won't wash off with some rain coming down.

My reaction is the same as Ellen's

Another girl on the other team said that she hoped the ground would get struck by lightning and that our team would get electrocuted. But this girl wasn't the brightest person because she didn't think about the fact that they were on the exact same field as us and if the ground was struck by lightning not just my team would bd electrocuted but she and her team would be electrocuted as well. I just don't understand the things that run through their heads. Who thinks it's okay to pee your pants, I am just flabbergasted.

Pleasant Grove's Cry for Help

Last night was my second game and first home game of the season and we went all out for it. We started the game pumped and ready to play Pleasant Grove. We were jumping and running and doing all these crazy things to warm ourselves up because the weather was brutal last night, it was in the twenties during our game and some of us, including me, were not smart and didn't bring gloves so our hands were freezing and to add to that there was a chilly wind. The thing that made our hands even more cold was the fact that our sticks have metal shafts that we hold onto and they aren't warm so we have to hold something freezing even though without the pole we would still be freezing. My team went out on the field with so much energy and fire, we were ready to play. We decided that because one of our coach, Maddie, was sick that we would play and win the game for her.  In that first half I

scored one goal because I out played the girl and I made an assist which was a really cool assist to Gabi. In the first half we played with a lot of intensity making the score seven to zero for halftime. During halftime we decided to give Maddie the presents we made for her to get better. We gave Maddie a blanket that we tied the ends on and was SUPER soft, a card that everyone signed that said "We Love You", and we gave her a little poster that Corryne wrote a poem to go along with. The poem was really good and it told Maddie how her presents helps us become better players and how much we appreciate her. By the end Maddie was choked up because she was really having a hard time lately. Maddie had to leave but we still had the fire to play for Maddie and our other two coaches, Laurel and Elle Mango. Laurel and Elle Mango pumped us up and got us ready for the second half which I was super excited to play in. We went out on the field and played really well the second half considering we were all so cold. We didn't play as hard as the first half but we did manage to take the ball down to X and and keep it consistently moving. In the second half we scored four more goals but were scored on two times but we still had a lead that was up by nine. I managed to score one goal in the second half. I will admit it wasn't my cleanest game but it was a good game for me. I got called on a lot, I think in the first half I was called probably five times and same with in the second half. In the end we played good, had a fun time, and won for Maddie so what more could you ask for.

The Fight Against Juan Diego

My first real game of the season was on Wednesday and it was against Juan Diego. It was so much fun. This was technically my first game of my entire high school. I liked that my first ever high school game we won and I scored two of our nine goals and had two pretty cool assists. My first goal was in the first half and was left handed so that makes me feel very accomplished. I started with my stick in my left hand and rolled and switched left and beat my defender leaving a clear path to the goal where I kept repeating "place your shot, place your shot" in my head. I had to think about placing my shot because lately in practice or other games I just rip a shot but the ball goes directly toward the goalie which makes it super easy to catch because it goes right into the goalies stick or they get the ball bounced off of them because it hits their body. My first assist was to my teammate Jade in the first half and she caught the ball and ripped it to cage hitting the net. I wasn't at X when I threw the ball to Jade which are usually the best assist but I still got the assist because Jade can rip a really fast and hard shot. My second goal was an assisted goal which passed to me by Marissa who gave me a great throw that I took and ran to cage with. My second assist was behind cage at X where I saw Kinley run through and I through it to her and she threw in a fake that made the goalie

This is me playing at our game

disoriented and threw it to the net. In the first half my team was up five, zero, because we were up by so much my coach applied a rule that we had to make every goal an assisted goal because she noticed a lot of people were running than taking a shot that didn't involve any teamwork because there wasn't one pass and our coaches like to say that the ball is faster than a runner so we started passing more in the second half and came together as a team and still beat the other team. Our defense held strong in the first half and let no one pass them and had some great double teams and getting back to their player as soon as their double team was over. Second half our defense still played super good but we started to slip a little and got confused every once in a while about who was playing what but in the end we came together as a team and won our game. But of course not everything was sunshine and rainbow's, before we left Park City we couldn't find a lot of JV and Varsity's uniforms and that is really serious because if your whole team doesn't have the same uniforms you can be disqualified. Luckily a few of JV's uniforms were in our teammate, Caityn's, car and we got them back. We found Varsity's in our coaches car but we left half an hour later but luckily we played good even after the mishap before the game.

Lacrosse

Lacrosse is so much fun. Lacrosse is high intensity. I'm not talking about the guys lacrosse where you smash into each other and have to wear a ton of safety gear. A regular guys gear is as much as the goalies gear so having to run in that much equipment would suck because you have your weight plus twenty extra pounds. A regular girl player in lacrosse has to only wear eye gear and a mouth guard. Girls and guys lacrosse sticks are different as well. A guys stick has a pocket that helps hold the ball in easier because they get checked more often. Girls lacrosse sticks have a really small pocket which makes it harder to keep the ball in your stick.

Because girls sticks don't really have a pocket it requires a lot more technique than guys. Guys don't have to give with their stick when their catching and then they can cradle the ball where guys can just get the head of their stick close to the ball and it will make it in without any need to give with the stick. Girls can't hit each other either unless it's their stick and it is away from their body. If you check towards their body it's also illegal in girls lacrosse but guys can hit the stick their body and they can do whatever they want unless it's not serious.

Picture Curtesy of Team USA

I will admit that I am not the most legal checker. I get a nervous when I'm playing defense and the girl I'm defending has the ball and starts to beat so then I just swing my stick out of worry and then I get called on for an illegal check. One time I was playing in a tournament and I went out and the girl who had the ball was beating me and I accidentally hit her in the head and got a yellow card in the first minute of the tournament. A yellow card isn't that bad because it means that it was more illegal than a check to the stick but it wasn't a slash to the body which means you hit them as hard as you could in the head and it looked intentional.I've never gotten a red card but I have gotten a few yellow cards which isn't something to be proud of.

Lacrosse is actually a very intense game but it's fun even if you do guys lacrosse it just means you have to run harder and you'll probably go home with a lot of bruises. My favorite position to play is offense because it has more action but I will honestly play anything: defense, midfield, offense, even goalie if they needed it.